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June 2010 / HAUAGA: THE ART OF JOHN PULE book launch
Published to coincide with the first major survey exhibition of John Pule's work, curated by the City Gallery Wellington, Hauaga provides an indispensable guide to the work of one of the most powerful and original artists of the new Oceania. John Pule is one of the most significant artists living and working in New Zealand today. From the mid-1990s his powerful, enigmatic and personal paintings attracted great interest, and his work came to be widely shown. Famously inspired by hiapo, the innovative barkcloths of nineteenth-century Niue, Pule has been fascinated by the Polynesian past and present, but his work ranges far more widely, responding both to ancestral culture, and to the global terror and violence of our time.
This is the first book to deal with John Pule's art. It ranges over his drawing, print-making and writing he is the author of two novels and several volumes of poetry as well as his painting. Essays by Gregory OBrien, Peter Brunt, and Nicholas Thomas provide several routes into Pule's engaging and compelling works, considering his formation as a writer and artist, his meditations on life and loss, and the extraordinary architecture of his visual art. John Pule speaks himself, through an extended interview, and in a series of extracts from his poetry and prose. (source: Otago University Press)
Hauaga : The Art of John Pule
Edited by Nicholas Thomas
Published by Otago University Press, 2010
Hardback, 290 x 275 mm, 184 pp, colour illustrations
ISBN 978 1 877372 80 3, RRP $120.00
May 2010 / John Pule exhibition at City Gallery
City Gallery Wellington has announced that a solo show of gallery artist John Pule will open this month. John Pule: Hauaga (Arrivals) is Pule's first major solo exhibition in a public gallery and promises to be a landmark survey of his work.
Gallery Director Paula Savage is delighted that City Gallery is launching this milestone exhibition. "City Gallery Wellington is thrilled to give John Pule this well-deserved major survey show, which spans 20 years of his work. This exhibition demonstrates how his work stretches across art forms and cultures, drawing from an endlessly rich range of historical and present-days sources from the Pacific, as well as Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond. (source: City Gallery media release, May 2010)
The exhibition runs 29 May - 12 September 2010 and entry is free. For more information and visiting hours, see City Gallery's website.
15.03.08 I Darryn George and John Pule in Easter Exhibition; Stations of the Cross
To coincide with Easter, The Gus Fisher Gallery have invited 15 visual artists and 15 composers to create new work in response to the Stations of the Cross. Among the participants exploring this enduring theme are Octavia Cook, John Walsh, Natalie Robinson, John Rimmer, Peter Madden and Gow Langsford Gallery artists John Pule and Darryn George.
Darryn George will participate in a panel discussion alongside John Reynolds and Eve deCastro Robinson on Wednesday 19th March, 6-8pm. For more information please contact the Gus Fisher Gallery.
The Stations of the Cross, The Gus Fisher Gallery, 14-24 March 2008
John Pule at NBK Berlin
Gallery artists Shane Cotton, Reuben Paterson and John Pule have been invited to exhibit at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, as part of the exhibition Dateline: Contemporary Art of the Pacific Islands. The exhibition, which is a curatorial collaboration between Rhana Devenport of the Govett Brewster Art Gallery and Dr. Alexander Tolnay, director of NBK, will tour Germany and return to New Zealand in 2008.
Dr. Tolnay says he aims "to explore recent developments in the contemporary art of the Pacific tracking along the "date line" and investigating how a new generation of artists in the region reacts to the complex contradictions between tradition, modernity and globalization in today's world. The exhibition should explore the various ways in which renewal and evolution of indigenous traditions are occurring, incorporating cross-cultural interaction while at the same time contending with the pressures of "ethnokitsch" and tourism"
Exhibition dates at NBK: 7 September -19 October 2007
The City Gallery Kiel: 25 January - 24 March 2008
City Gallery Sindelfingen: 20 April -22 June 2008
John Pule to participate in the 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
John Pule, will represent New Zealand in the upcoming 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5) held at the Queensland Art Gallery between the 2nd December 2006 and 27 May 2007. This will be Pules third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, having participated at APTs in 1996 and most recently in 2002.
John Pule Prints 2006
To coincide with John Pule's current exhibition, Another Green World, two new limited edition prints have been released. Published by PaperGraphica in Christchurch, these prints incorporate both lithography and woodcut techniques.
Recent Publication I John Puhiatau Pule Another Green World
To co-incide with his 2006 exhibition, Another Green World , Gow Langsford Gallery have produced a small publication of new paintings by John Pule. Divided into two parts, the catalogue depicts nine works from Pule's potent green and red series. Accompanying the works is an essay by professor Nicholas Thomas, Director of the Cambridge University Museum of Archeology and Anthropology.
Catalogue specifics: 44 pages, 32 colour plates, 200 x 200 mm, rrp.$19.95. To order a copy please contact the gallery.